Innovative Approaches to Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment

Summary

The report identifies key ingredients to women’s economic empowerment and recommends that all actors involved commit to report to the 2010 MDG Summit on specific actions taken to empower women and more broadly, accelerate the achievement of MDG3.  In addition, ‘Innovative Approaches’ makes recommendations in the three core dimensions of women’s economic empowerment: Expanding women’s economic opportunity, including expanding women’s access to finance, prioritizing domestic energy initiatives and encouraging women to form public-private partnerships for local service delivery; Strengthening women’s legal status and rights, including strengthening women’s land ownership rights and supporting implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and Expanding opportunities for women’s voice, inclusion and participation, including conducting national consultations on women in economic decision-making, encouraging the private sector to promote greater participation of women, and convening national fora on women and entrepreneurship.